Dr. David Kessler, the FDA commissioner in the 1990s at the time Purdue’s powerful, long-acting opioid OxyContin was first approved, says the FDA never should have allowed the drug and others like it to be broadly marketed for chronic pain patients. The agency erred in radically extending the market for opioids despite the lack of […]
Former FDA Commissioner Says Agency Erred in Allowing Drug Companies to Promote Opioids for Long-Term Use…
U.S. Surgeon General Urges ‘Aggressive’ Steps Against e-Cigarettes…
The top US doctor on Tuesday called for “aggressive” action against e-cigarette use, which he said has exploded to epidemic proportions among youth and puts their health and brain development at risk. “We must take aggressive steps to protect our children from these highly potent products that risk exposing a new generation of young people […]
Your smartphone📱is making you👈 stupid, antisocial 🙅 and unhealthy 😷. So why can’t you put it down❔⁉️…
In the winter of 1906, the year San Francisco was destroyed by an earthquake and SOS became the international distress signal, Britain’s Punch magazine published a dark joke about the future of technology. Under the headline, “Forecasts for 1907,” a black and white cartoon showed a well-dressed Edwardian couple sitting in a London park. The […]
Small-Town American Budgets Devastated by Opioid Crisis as 41 States Subpoena Big Pharma…
A surge in Opioid consumption, primarily prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl – a drug 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine – and the resulting spike in overdose related deaths is devastating families in rural America. But the opioid epidemic is laying waste to more than just the broken families…
5 Ways Smart Phones Are Dumbing People Down…
Smart Phone habits by many have been and continue to alarm just about anybody who isn’t tethered to such technology. Truthstream’s Melissa Dykes does a great job highlighting five very meaningful ways these Phones are making people who use them, habitually, less social, more isolated and well, dumber…
Teens Abusing Opioids Are Getting Their Painkillers Legally…
A majority of teens abusing opiate based painkillers began their addictions through legally prescribed medication from a doctor, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers gathered data from 1976 through 2015 and found a correlation between painkiller abuse and previous prescriptions. Roughly eight percent of teens are currently abusing opioid medication…
OxyContin Goes Global — “We’re only just getting started”…
OxyContin is a dying business. With the nation in the grip of an opioid epidemic that has claimed more than 200,000 lives, the U.S. medical establishment is turning away from painkillers. Top health officials are discouraging primary care doctors from prescribing them for chronic pain, saying there is no proof they work long-term…
Illinois AG Sues Insys Therapeutics Over Deceptive Marketing Practices of ‘Opiod’ Products…
In a lawsuit filed by the state of Illinois, Insys Therapeutics Inc. has been accused of deceptive marketing practices involving a cancer drug and using “sham” speaking…